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“This blog is like a fusion of the Baroque ‘salon’ with its well-tuned harpsichord around which polite society gathered for entertainment and edification and, on the other hand, a Wild West “saloon” with its out-of-tune piano and swinging doors, where everyone has a gun and something to say. Nevertheless, we try to point our discussions back to what it is to be Catholic in this increasingly difficult age, to love God, and how to get to heaven.” – Fr. Z
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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
My View For Awhile: Urban Devastation Edition
I’m heading home after a truly enjoyable stay at the great Assumption Grotto parish. Still, every time we left the parish, what I saw was alarming. Block after block of houses, abandoned, boarded up, burned, falling to ruin, businesses and … Read More
Interview about Honduran Card. Rodriguez Maradiaga
Ed Pentin, the superstar of English language Vaticanistas working in Rome, has a fascinating interview with the widow of the former Ambassador of Honduras to the Holy See. It seems that she had taken investment advice given to her … Read More
Pope’s words about God making someone “gay”
First, I hate that term “gay”. There’s nothing “gay” about it. The liberal Left is slobbering all over alleged words of Pope Francis to a young homosexual man, who says that Pope told him that God made him homosexual. I am … Read More
“Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.”
With my emphases from Choruses from “The Rock” by T. S. Eliot: We build in vain unless the Lord build with us. Can you keep the City that the Lord keeps not with you? A thousand policemen directing the traffic Cannot … Read More
“I used to think hosts found on floors was Traditional Catholic hyperbole…”
From a reader… I used to think hosts being found on the floors in churches was just something Traditional Catholics talked about in hyperbole and not something that actually happened. Low and behold, I walk into church to make a … Read More
I have bad news and good news: Scouts and Troops
A couple of great institutions have committed seppuku by conforming themselves to the worst trends of a secularist society. Stick a fork – or a tanto – into the Boy Scouts and Girls Scouts. I was a Boy Scout, so … Read More
@ArchbishpSample to make liturgical changes in the @archpdx
His Excellency Most Reverend Alexander Sample, Archbishop of Portland has stood up again and again in favor of a strong Catholic identity. I remind the readership of his stellar sermon some years ago at Assumption Grotto in Detroit (HERE) and … Read More
My View For Awhile: Domum
I have been contemplating the set of vestments in green which should be underway. Do I want the dalmatics to fasten with buttons? Shopping for supper with the editor of New Liturgical Movment. I contemplated pajjata. Puntarelle Saltimbocca From Vespers … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes
Was there a good point in the sermon you heard at Mass as you fulfilled your Sunday obligation? Let us know what it was. For my part, I don’t have a congregation today so I won’t preach. However, I will … Read More
The Cardinal, the Model, the Miter and the Gay-la. The lesson?
There is a Latin phrase…. Qui cum canibus concumbunt cum pulicibus surgent. Whoever lies down with dogs, rises with fleas. If you go these galas and try to deal with them on their terms and turf, it isn’t going to … Read More
Greg Hlatky on Some notes for your Sunday Mass in the Vetus and the Novus Ordo: ““By pursuing perfection we will achieve excellence.” – Vince Lombardi”
